The Facilities Team has scheduled a Work Day for February Today & This Week at UUSG 16. We have several interior projects we’d like to address on that uusg.org/calendar Welcome to this house! day. If you are available to help let Kevin O’Neill know. If you wish to see our historic site preserved, our meeting space Sunday, February 10 improved, or our classrooms enhanced, then please contact  10:30 am RE Music Art Project Kevin O’Neill. The Facilities Team has a wide range of projects  11:15 am Big Ideas Covenant Group requiring all skill levels, so anyone can help.  11:15 am Finance Team Meeting  11:15 am Green Sanctuary Team Meeting  12:30 pm Opioids & Addiction Discussion  12:30 pm Pathway to Membership

Monday, February 11 Contact Information  4:00 pm IYC Tutor Training February 10, 2019 Rev. Jennifer Innis, Interim Co-Minister  7:00 pm Reiki Discussion Group [email protected]; 630-232-2350, ext. 103 Unitarian Universalist Rev. Patrick Price, Interim Co-Minister Tuesday, February 12 [email protected]; 630-232-2350, ext. 102  9:30 am Geneva Girl Scout Leader Meeting Society of Geneva  10:30 am Staff Meeting Becky Hruby, Temporary Congregational Administrator [email protected]; 630-232-2350, ext. 100  7:00 pm Board of Directors

Lisa Rittenberry, Administrative Assistant Theme for February: [email protected]; 630-232-2350, ext. 101 Wednesday, February 13 David de Coriolis, Board President  4:00 pm FVRI Opioid Working Group Justice [email protected]  7:00 pm Choir Rehearsal Tracy Dullea, Music Director [email protected] Thursday, February 14 Sandra Anderson, RE Music Director  6:00 pm Youth Outlook [email protected]  6:00 pm Dungeons & Dragons Group (off-site) Jeff Stibal, Technical Director Today’s Worship Team [email protected] Friday, February 15 Cynthia Spiegel, Song Leader In the Pulpit: Rev. Jennifer Innis Worship Associates: Trish Beckjord, Roxanne Willis [email protected] Saturday, February 16 Musicians: The UUSG House Band: David Hanchette, Geoff  9:00 am Facilities Team Work Day Pynn, Tracey McFadden, Andy Montgomery, Tracy Dullea The Unitarian Universalist Society of Geneva  2:00 pm YRUU Service Rehearsal PO Box 107, 102-112 S. 2nd St. Social Hour Hosts: The LRE Steering Team Geneva, IL 60134, 630-232-2350 Sunday, February 17 Counters: The Finance Team www.uusg.org  11:15 am Big Ideas Covenant Group www.facebook.com/uusg1  12:30 pm Welcoming Team Meeting  1:00 pm Mental Health Ministry Presentation Upcoming Services  7:00 pm Reiki Share February 17: Rev. Jennifer Innis, Rev. Patrick Price February 24: YRUU Annual Service

Order of Worship Announcements The Mental Health Ministry will present a discussion titled Ingathering Music “Adaptation to Disability,” February 17, 1-2:30pm, in the Common Room. Bev Coe is facilitating this discussion. Bev Ringing of the Church Bell and Call to Worship The service today is titled “When Sparks Fly Between Evolution & Love.” The worship is inspired by Evolution Sunday as part of became suddenly and profoundly deaf 10 years ago. She will *Song of Community # 126 describe her journey from deafness to the return to hearing with “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing” The Clergy Letter Project. Started 14 years ago by biologist and academic Michael Zimmerman, Evolution Sunday is an annual the implantation of cochlear implants. Factors facilitating Words of Welcome effort to further the conversation between religion and evolution. recovery from this disability and other disabilities will be Community Announcements The Clergy Letter Project promotes religious statements in support highlighted. Congregational Greetings of evolution, especially in response to anti-evolution policies, such as in school curriculum. For more information, go to Women’s Circle returns to the UUSG calendar on Saturday, Enter into Shared Silence at the sound of the Rin Gong theclergyletterproject.org. February 23, 1-4pm, with the topic of self-compassion, facilitated Prelude Charlie, Chumbawamba by Julia Friesen. We will explore this important idea in a variety of Chalice Lighting The January “BOW” collected $1,050 for Bridge formats that will give everyone tangible ways to practice self- Communities! Thank you for your generous contributions. compassion in daily life and resources for further exploration. *Song of Praise (see words inside front of gray hymnal) Please see full details in the weekly email. *Antiphonal Reading # 445 “The Womb of Stars” February “Beyond Our Walls” will support our church’s *Our Covenant (see words inside front of gray hymnal) active involvement with Habitat for Humanity. Our YRUU and February Friday Flick: 13th The title of Ava DuVernay’s *Doxology (see words inside front of gray hymnal) young adult groups will be traveling this summer to work on extraordinary and galvanizing documentary refers to the 13th Habitat houses. Your donation will be used to support the trips Amendment to the Constitution, which reads, “Neither slavery nor Intro to the Offering and as contributions to the local chapters with which we work. involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof Offering Brief History of God (Gstring Theory), Tamblyn Thank you for your support! the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the Sacred Story “Your Brain’s Creation Story,” Connie Barlow United States.” The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass criminalization and the sprawling American Children & teachers leave for religious education classes Pathway to Membership The UUSG Welcoming Team invites prison industry is laid out by DuVernay with bracing lucidity. interested newcomers to attend our next Pathway to Membership Children’s Departing Song: “As You Go” Nancy Belt Please join us in the UUSG Common Room on Friday, February “As you go, may love surround you, may truth be your guide, (P2M) session today. We’ll kick things off around 12:45 with a 22, at 7:00pm, as we present this insightful and provocative look at may peace be in your heart.” light lunch. the role race continues to play in our criminal justice system. Pastoral Prayer & Silent Meditation Opioids & Addictions Discussion Today at 12:30pm, Bill Musical Response Secret o' Life, James Tayor Get Involved With Interweave We are a local group of LGBTQ Scown and Roxanne Willis will build awareness of the growing members, friends and allies who meet once a month to have Readings drug crisis sweeping across the US. It is deadlier than the discussions and special events. We will meet Sunday February 24, *Hymn # 95 “There Is More Love Somewhere” Vietnam War, gun violence, car crashes or AIDS. Over 70 at 12:30pm to finalize plans for our annual LGBTQ service people died of a drug overdose in Kane County in 2018. Nate Sermon “When Sparks Fly Between Evolution & Love” scheduled for March 3. For information please contact Lynn Steele Lanthrum, Clinical Director of Lighthouse Recovery in St at [email protected]. *Hymn # 100 “I’ve Got Peace Like a River ” Charles, will be with us to provide a clinical view of the opioid

*Unison Closing # 706 (Kathleen McTigue) epidemic in our community. All are encouraged to attend, especially our teen aged kids, parents, and young adults. Be Sure to Save the Date! UUSG’s annual Day of Service is *Sending Our Light into the World scheduled for Saturday, March 30. There will be many ways for all *Benediction ages to get involved—from volunteering at the food bank, to Lost & Found Please check out the table in the Common Room. Please be seated for our Postlude putting together gift bags of personal care items for senior citizens, Anything left after February 17, will be taken to a donation center. to playing bingo with the residents of Geneva Care Center. Sign Postlude Let the Mystery Be, Iris DeMent up at uusg.org./day-of-service.

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